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Stop the World-I Want to Get Off is a kind of Everyman coloring book for quasi-grownups. Color Everyman's face white with flour. Dab on a maraschino-cherry nose. House him in a circus tent, and dress him in clown pants baggy enough to hold a pair of baby kangaroos. Name him "He" or "The Man." Make him walk like a mechanical doll, and then propel this symbolic cipher through a life cycle from the cradle to the grave that seems to take almost as long to stage as it would to live through...
...evening ended with a brilliant ball at the red brick British embassy, where the most select 600 mingled in marble halls, danced past the gold pillars of the grand ballroom, relaxed at candlelit tables on flagstone terraces. One terrace was covered by a white silk tent trimmed in gold, ashimmer with garlands of tiny lights-all designed for the 1957 visit of Queen Elizabeth...
...clergy was not immune from attack. After one Baptist preacher denounced him from the pulpit, Saunders discovered and published the fact that the preacher owned the only bawdyhouse in town. Another Independent editorial volley, aimed at an anti-Semitic evangelist named Mordecai Ham, blew down the revivalist's tent...
...faith healer, as loyal TV watchers know, is likely to be a hot-eyed spellbinder, his eye cocked to the collection plate and his theology about as solidly grounded as his gospel tent. But in Philadelphia a fortnight ago, the suffering who came forward to be healed-a retarded girl of about six, an old man with an ugly facial growth-received a blessing as dignified as the setting: 139-year-old St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. "This is no hocus-pocus," said St. Stephen's Rector Alfred Price from the pulpit. "This is a sacrament...
Often tapestries, commissioned to show the exploits of a brave and royal person, were rolled up. carried into battle to decorate his tent. Later, in the 17th and 18th centuries, taste turned more and more to fixed wall decoration-marble, gilded woodwork, monumental paintings -and tapestry began to take a second place. Ironically, just as great technical advances were being made in the art of weaving, the spirit of originality began to disappear, and tapestry largely became a slavish imitation of paintings-often complete with their own ornate "gold" frames woven around their borders. With the exception...